Posted by cbwarejr on October 28, 2003, at 6:04:25
Wife has been taking meds for 20+years and MAOI Parnate seems to work best for her. Side effect is terrible insomnia though. So her dr prescribed Tamezepam. SHe has been taking nightly for 5 years.
But she also uses to "check out" and talks of wanting to end things, life not worth living etc and having a two month supply of sleeping meds worries me.
Problem is that the Parnate seems to work well for her depression. all others dont .
This summer she stopped taking parnate and the sleeping meds, but the depression kicked back in within three weeks so we have stared new meds.
First Paxil, when wellbutrin, now lexapro. All during this time though she has been taking tamezepam on and off.
I took her tamezepam away, but before bed she used to go in the closet for a bit and then fall asleep in 15 minutes so I knew she had some sleeping meds somewhere. I went on a search and found a bottle of Ambien that was prescribed by her doc on Sept 1. She did not tell me about the meds. Also, she changed Dr.s and did not tell the first doc she changed and that is how she got the sleeping meds.
Her new doc, wanted her off the tamezepam/ambien totally becuase she feels long term usage is bad and causes its own problems.
As far as depresson, it runs in family, her dad 78 is on Remeron, Celexa, and zyprexa.
She also has Avoidant Borderline Personality Disorder and bits of this and that. You know what it is like with someone who is depressed.
What are your thoughts??
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